AmyD. | July 31, 2008
I admit, I’m not the perfect wife. I try. I really do. I’ve been cooking more lately, screeching (or is that sniping? I’m totally being sarcastic because neither is all that true) less, I’ve even attempted to be *gasp* rational. No really, I have. It’s not fun, it’s a lot more like being a man [...]
AmyD. | July 30, 2008
Blah blah, earthquake. Yadda yadda. I think it’s only a big deal if you don’t live here. Of course, if your house gets knocked down then it’s a really big deal, so fellow Californians don’t go scalping me over that first statement there. My house rolled a bit. Our light fixtures swung pretty hard. Nothing [...]
AmyD. | July 29, 2008
Saturday night we decided to go healthy. Mike made shrimp kebabs with shrimp, green bell peppers, red onion, peaches (yes, peaches – awesome!), and tomatoes. The bell pepper and peaches gave a sort of sweet and sour chicken feel to it without the gloopy, sugar-laden sauce. Shrimp on the barbie! What I really love about [...]
AmyD. | July 28, 2008
I mentioned that my uncle writes. He writes wonderful children’s stories, sometimes he writes stories about his experiences in Vietnam. This is one of the latter: One Day At A Time A Nam Story by Gene Bishop Okinawa, in Transit Day 3, 1966: 1800 hrs.: Muster being complete all Marines, in transit, promptly reported to [...]
AmyD. | July 25, 2008
Wednesday night we were up late (typical of summer for us) and decided to go out on the deck to have a couple of beers and talk while Mike smoked a cigar. It’s so hot that we have to wait until 11:30 or so for it to cool off to a tropical 70 something just [...]
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